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Kick off St. Patrick’s Day in Forest Park’s parade
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Join in the shenanigans Saturday, March 2 By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter
Get out your “Kiss Me I’m Irish” buttons out because Forest Park is kicking off St. Patty’s Day in style. The village is expecting about 8,000 to 10,000 people to pack the sidewalks along Madison Street to watch more than 70 floats, marchers, bands and others go by, according to Laurie Kokenes, executive director of the Forest Park Chamber of Commerce. One of the star attractions is always the Proviso East High School marching band. Other crowd pleasers include the Medinah parade units, Police and Fire Bagpipers, a stilt Walker, clowns, pets, Irish dancers and, of course, fire engines with their sirens wailing. New this year will be the Hamburglar and Grimace sponsored by the McDonalds at Desplaines and Madison, and the Chicago White Sox Southpaw which, according to the Sox website, is “a 6’4” fuzzy green dude who weighs 621 baseballs.” Kids love those entries and will bring shopping bags along with them to fill with candy and swag that will be handed out as the parade goes by. See PARADE on page 6
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